Free Realms Chef Guide

In Free Realms, a chef is a gatherer and a crafter. Unlike blacksmiths (a member only class), who must obtain their materials from miners, chefs obtain most of their own materials from gathering ingredients. Chefs then turn those ingredients into special food by cooking them. No matter what level chef you are, you specialize in making delicious, useful food for the citizens of Free Realms.

Quite simply, the main reason to be a chef in Free Realms is to make great food for you and your friends. The food that you can make can do a variety of things: increase your stats, attack, range, speed, power, health, and energy. There are also foods that can make you larger or smaller. When you first start out in your combat jobs, you may not find these food buffs necessary - but food quickly becomes as essential as potions in your questing and exploring Free Realms.

On top of that, the Chef job is perhaps one of the funnest free to play jobs in Free Realms: alternating between matching mini games and cooking mini-games (similar to the Cooking Mama series) makes you really feel like a chef! If you love cooking games, you'll love being a chef.

Chefs gather their ingredients by harvesting, a matching minigame. The goal in harvesting is to match 3 or more adjacent fruits or vegetables by creating a chain. Chains can be created by clicking on the first part of the chain, and tracing a line to the last part of the chain, then clicking again. Each chain you clear from the playing board will go towards a basket of the fruit - fill a basket up, and you'll have earned one ingredient for your recipes.

There is a time limit on the harvesting mini-game. You will gain time as you make matches on the board, and gain more time for longer chains than shorter ones. Although you may be tempted to only gather what you need and then leave or let the time run out, keep in mind that your score in the mini game contributes directly to your experience as a chef!

There are a few special tiles in the minigame you need to keep an eye out for:

Block: This tile can't be matched with anything, and it can't be destroyed unless you get it all the way to the bottom of the game board.

Blast: This tile, when clicked on, will destroy several random tiles across the board. Good to save for when you get stuck.

Locked: When a lock appears on a regular tile, it cannot be destroyed or shuffled. It can be matched with other matchable tiles, however. Matching a locked tile will unlock it, causing the lock to disappear and the tile to become a normal tile.

Star: This special tile acts as a wildcard. You can use this star as part of a combination with any other matchable tile.

Tornado: Clicking on this tile will shuffle around some tiles on the board randomly. These are good to save for times when you get stuck and can't find a match.